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MANUFACTURBOE ORNAMENTAL METALLIC FOIL.

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Nunn STATES PATENT' HnNi-tY suYDAM onoonn AND LEWIsoRooKn, `or NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANUFACTURE `OFORNAWIENTAL METALLIC FOIL.

SPECIPICATIONformng part of Letters Patent No. 295,986, dated April 1, 1884-.

Application fnen .my 15, leso. (No model.)

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Be `it known that we, HENRY SUYDAM ORooKn and Lewis CRooKE, both of the city, county, and State of N ew York, have made an invention or discovery of an Improvement in the Manufacture of Ornamental Metallic Foil; and we do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of our invention is to produce the article of manufacture consisting of tin-foil lhaving burnished letters, words, marks, figures, or designs on a dead or White ground, or the reverse, and thus rendered visible and distinct by reason of the contrast with the ground; and our invention consists in the method of and in machinery for producing the saine, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

`In order `that our invention may-be fully understood, we have represented in the accompanying drawings an apparatus for carrying out our invention.

Figure lof said drawings represents a side View of said apparatus. Fig. 2 represents a section of the apparatus through the line a a of Fig. 1.

The apparatus represented in said drawings consists, mainly, of rollers for operating upon the foil, of a reel from which the foil is unrolled to be passed to the rollers, and of a second reel upon which the foil is wound after l being operated upon by the rollers.

The roller A is of steel or other suitable metal, which is first turned true, and preferably polished, and then has all of its surface,

except those portions correspondingwith the parts of the tin-foil which are to beleft bright or burnished, striated, grained, matted, or st-ippled. In the drawings this ma-in roller is represented as being grained, with the eX- ception of` a five-pointed star, which is left smooth. This roller is supported in suitable stands, B B, having suitable boxes, C, for its shaft or journals D. Immediately above thi roller is a counter-roller, E, made preferably with a shaft, f, sustained in boxes which can be'pressed toward the roller A by means of powerfulscrews G, the said shaft f being sur-l? rounded with a body of paper or other slightlyyielding material. The cf unter-roller may, however, be of metal, and Trained, stri'ated,

essary to gear the two rollers together, so that they shall run with the same supercial speed and articulate. Vhere the dry slightly-yielding counter-roller is employed, itis preferable that it should' be geared to run at the same superficial speed as the other roller. Vhere liquid is employed with the yielding roller, it neednot be geared, unless desired, with the other roller.`

In practicing our invention we pass the burnished tin-foil between the main and counter rollers, unwinding on one reel and winding up onthe other, the tin-foil issuing from between these rollers, acted upon by the striated,

grained, matted, or stippled surface of the main roller, having a deador white surface,

while those portions of the tin-foil that correspond with the portions of the surface of the main roller thathave not been striated, grained, matted, or stippled will be left bright or bur nished.

Any letters, Words, marks, figures, or designs desired can be produced on the main rollerby stippling, striating, graining, or matting all its surface except such portions as correspond with the letters, words, marks, figures, or designs that are to be left bright or burnished on the tin-foil.

It is obvious that the tin-foil can be produced with the Words, letters, marks, figures, or designs having a dead or white surface on a bright or burnished ground, thereverse of that just described, by striating, graining, matting, or stippling the portions of the surface of the main roller that correspond with the portions to be left dead or white upon a burnished ground, the rest of the roller being left smoot Ve do not herein claim the article of manuroo facture of ornanientai'inetallio foil having letand the other of which is a counter-roller to 2o ters, words, marks, gures, or designs upon a roughened, dead, or white ground, or the reverse, and thus rendered visible and distinct by reason of the Contrast with the ground, as that forms the subject-matter of the United States l Patent granted to Henry Suydain Grooke, dated August 29, 1882, No. 263,821.

What We claim, however, as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method of ornainenting metallic foil by passing it between two rollers, one of which has all of itsl surface, except what corresponds with or is the counterpart of that to be produced burnished or bright on the surface of the foil, or the reverse, striated, grained, inatted, or stippled, while those portions the counterpart of that to be produced burnished or bright on the surface of the foil are smooth,

press the foil in contact therewith, substan tiaily as described.

2. The combination of a main roller having its surface the counterpart of that to appear burnished or bright on thetin-foil smooth, 2 5 while that portion that is to appear dead or White on the tin-foil is grained, striated, inatted, or stippied, with a counter-roller, sul stantiaily as described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set 3o our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY SUYDAM GROOKE. LEVIS GROOKE.

W'ituesses:

T. H. PaLMER, Guo. H. GRAHAM. 

